The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-14
DRAMATIC AND LYRIC.
Daily DoleS Us Out but Two
Nights.
\ GLANCE AT THE SEASON.
DAYS Peerless CemPauy-Echoss
From the n etropolfs-LatestF From
the Amusement World.

Two nights are all Daily has set apart
for his Salt Lake season this year.
Perhaps we should be content with
this, for with the exception of Salt
Lake, no tcwn or city between San
Francisco and New York is touched by
him in his jump back across the con-
tinent.
That he should have selected Salt
Lake is all the more wonderful when
we recall that his last visit here, three
Of four years ago, was not such one
IS to cause him to burn to repeat 1t.
The engagement was a brief one; II
was held in the Opera House and the
thermometer was jumping from 80 to
100. And though Ada Rehan sent the
youth of the town mad, and the names
of Lewis, Drew and Mrs. Gilbert were
on everyone's lips, the box ot1oe Old
not show that it had held its end NJ,
and lovers of the drama mournfully
eoniectured that Salt Lake would be one
of The points DAILY would put down in
his book as a good place TO keep away
from in the future.
he did skip us the next season.
Bat happily he has decided to
give as another try-as much,
perhaps, because his people will
want good rest in their long fight as
for any other reason, and there is no
such place on the trip where they can
enjoy it as Salt Lake.
Whatever the reason that brings this
inimitable company of players to US
again, let US be thankful for it. With
al the old famous ones, and several new
notables added, and with two OF the
strongest successes on which New YORK
has placed her emphatic stamp, DAILY
will be in the best of trim to give US
two nights of the keenest pleasure.
The writer saw Days revival OF The
Tanning of the Shrew in New York last
spring. It had then run whole season,
and the entire house was sold out
for so far ahead that they were
closing up the box Office at all hours,
and some times it was difficult to find
it open at all. Ada Rehan was the
craze there as she will be here, and we
doubt if ANYTHING like her portrayal of
Katherine was ever seen since Shake
speare limned out the character. The
sumptuousness with which the whole
thing was put on, was another great
feature. Drew, Lewis. Clark, Mrs.
Gilbert, Gilbert, Leclerq, Holland and
Miss Dreher made up the cast.
Nancy & Co. is the second of Daly's
successes to be giver here. 1t is on the
"7-20-8," Passing Regiment" might
OFF, - modern order, in the adaptation
and arrangement of which Daily is so
famous.
Nancy & Co." is based upon the
ambition OF a lady, who, unknown to
her husband, has written play which
q literary man of New York has fixed
up and obtained production for. She
mas been corresponding about it under
an assumed masculine name. ThG
piece is to be produced. She leaves bel
husband in Chicago and rushes to New
York, where she bursts upon her col
laborator, who is engaged to be mar
ned, and is residing in the same house
with his beloved. The husband has
been told she has gone to visit rich
relative. He suspects this is not true
and he finds among her papers an en-
Velope which gives him cieW. He fol-
lows her, turns up at his old friend
Grifings, where the male partner of
Nancy & Co." lives. From this the
complications come thick and fast, and
LHe pay sOeS WlInOuI uuu mOmout'
The working out of the plot is def and
increasingly amusing. The characters
aCe well varied, the situations original
and remarkably amusing, the lines
bright and witty and the actions quick
and full of surprises. There are some
overdrafts in probability, but they can
be forgiven.
Mr.. DAILY is either the author, trans
lstor or adaptor of sll the plays which
his company produce. 1t is not gener-
ally known that he wrote Pique, Di-
vorce and Under the Gsslight. Tit
Tanning of the Shrew he made a specia
study, and in rearranging for the mo
dern stage, all Shakespeare's riSque
having been carefully obliterated.
Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week are the dates of this engagement